Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (1678-1745)
• Was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect.
• He created many important sculptural and architectural projects in Naples.
• Domenico Antonio Vaccaro was born in Naples.
• He was the son of Lorenzo Vaccaro.
• His father Lorenzo was a pupil of Cosimo Fanzago.
• Domenico Antonio Vaccaro first studied under his father, later he trained in the workshop of Francesco Solimena.
• He initially dedicated himself to painting but from around 1707 he appears to have practised almost exclusively as a sculptor and architect.
• In the 1730s he resumed painting.
• He also designed the Palazzo Tarsia and Palazzo Caravita at Portici, the church of San Giovanni at Capua, and he reconstructed the Cathedral of Bari.
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Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Madonna and Child with Saints Roch, Sebastian and Francis Xavier, about 1730
Original, Worcester Art Museum, MA. Visited in 2020.
Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Madonna and Child with Saints Roch, Sebastian and Francis Xavier, about 1730
Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Solomon Worshiping a Pagan God, ca. between 1695 and 1700
Original, DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts. Visited in 2020.
Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Solomon Worshiping a Pagan God, ca. between 1695 and 1700
